Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1988
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 1988, 10:39 PM CDT for Kendall County, Texas. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 1988, 10:39 PM CDT (03:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1988, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kendall County, TX
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Victoria Regiona, TX (KVCT), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 214 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2917 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1158 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KSAT 030341
TORSAT
TXC259-030445-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX
1039 PM CDT THU JUN 2 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1145 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTH TEXAS
...KENDALL
WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER KENDALL COUNTY NEAR
COMFORT AND ANOTHER IN SOUTH KENDALL COUNTY JUST NORTH OF BOERNE.
THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...GO TO A BASEMENT SHELTER OR A
CENTRAL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUILDING.
ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING.
YOU SHOULD ASK THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY TO RELAY YOUR
SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS TO THE LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 4:49 PM CDT, 5 hours 50 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 445 PM CDT THU JUN 2 1988 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS INCLUDING...COMAL..EDWARDS..GUADALUPE..KENDALL..AND KERR COUNTIES... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND WEST TEXAS UNTIL 10 PM CDT. THE WATCH IS WITHIN AN AREA 55 MILES EITHER SIDE OF A LINE FROM 55 MILES WEST OF SAN ANGELO TO 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF AUSTIN. AT 440 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER THE CITY OF BRADY IN MCCULLOCH COUNTY...MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. ALTHOUGH NO THUNDERSTORMS WERE WITHIN THE SAN ANTONIO WEATHER OFFICE WARNING AREA...WHICH INCLUDES THE ABOVE MENTIONED COUNTIES...THE THREAT OF RAPID THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT EXISTS OVER THE SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. < PERSONS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER AND BE READY TO TAKE QUICK ACTION AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPOACHES OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS AND BULLETINS WILL BE ISSUED BY SOUTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICES KEEPING @YOU INFORMED OF THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER...SO PLEASE STAY TUNED.
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 6:05 PM CDT, 4 hours 34 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 600 PM CDT THU JUN 2 1988 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT FOR PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND WEST TEXAS THIS EVENING...INCLUDING THE COUNTIES OF COMAL.. EDWARDS..GUADALUPE..KENDALL..AND KERR. AT 600 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING JUST SOUTH OF BRADY AND NORTHWEST OF LAMPASAS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PRODUCED SEVERE WEATHER AND WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING BETWEEN BLANCO AND MENARD. THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO OR DEVELOPING IN THE ABOVE MENTIONED COUNTIES CONTINUES THIS EVENING. PERSONS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA SHOULD REMIAN ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. STAY TUNED TO LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS REGARDING THIS SEVERE WEATHER EVENT THIS EVENING.
Local storm report, Jun 2, 6:50 PM CDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 650 PM CDT THU JUNE 1988 CHANNEL 6 T.V. IN TEMPLE RELAYED A REPORT FROM LOMETA...327/66 FM AUS. IN LAMPASAS COUNTY. THE OLD ROUND HOUSE TRAIN STATIO)N WAS DESTROYED. THE BUS SHED IS GONE AND MANY TREES UPROOTED. EYE WITNESS TO FUNNEL IN DOWNTOWN LOMETA BETWEEN 550 AND 610 PM. AUS/JVD.
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 7:09 PM CDT, 3 hours 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 705 PM CDT THU JUN 2 1988 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT FOR PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND WEST TEXAS THIS EVENING...INCLUDING THE COUNTIES OF COMAL.. EDWARDS..GUADALUPE..KENDALL..AND KERR. AT 700 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING FROM NEAR JOHNSON CITY...TO EAST OF MENARD TO LLANO. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PRODUCED SEVERE WEATHER IN PORTIONS OF CENTRAL TEXAS THIS EVENING. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO OR DEVELOPING IN THE ABOVE MENTIONED COUNTIES CONTINUES THIS EVENING. PERSONS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA SHOULD REMIAN ALERT FOR SEVERE WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMEUNTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS REGARDING THIS SEVERE WEATHER EVENT.
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 8:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 830 PM CDT THU JUN 2 1988 ...TORNADO WATCH NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 AM TONIGHT AND EXPANDED TO COVER MOST OF CENTRAL TEXAS...INCLUDING THE SAN ANTONIO METROPLITAN AREA... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS REVISED THE TORNADO WATCH TO INCLUDE MUCH OF CENTRAL TEXAS. THE WATCH IS WITHIN AN AREA 80 MILES EITHER SIDE OF A LINE FROM 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF SAN ANGELO TO 20 MILES EAST-NORTHEAST OF VICTORIA...AND IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 AM TONIGHT. AT 830 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING FROM NORTHWEST OF AUSTIN...TO JUST NORTHEAST OF KERRVILLE...TO SOUTH OF MASON. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE STORM NORTHEAST OF KERRVILLE WILL BE MOVING TO NEAR THE KERR/ KENDALL COUNTY LINE NORTH OF COMFORT TEXAS. STRONG GUSTY WINDS... HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAINS...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. PERSONS IN THE WATCH %AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS REGARDING THIS SEVERE WEATHER EVENT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Williamson | 55 min |
| Jun 2, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 66 min |
| Jun 2, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Travis | 66 min |
| Jun 2, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Williamson | 32 min |
| Jun 2, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kendall | 61 min |
| Jun 2, 10:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Kerr | 66 min |
| Jun 2, 11:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar, Comal | 61 min |
| Jun 2, 11:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Caldwell | 46 min |
| Jun 2, 11:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Medina | 61 min |
| Jun 2, 11:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Wilson | 61 min |
| Jun 3, 12:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio | 55 min |
| Jun 3, 12:52 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | DeWitt | 38 min |
| Jun 3, 12:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 63 min |
| Jun 3, 2:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Lavaca | 69 min |
| Jun 3, 3:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Jackson | 47 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.